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The Minister of Justice, Choo Mi-ae, was found to have paid political funds at nearby restaurants and gas stations on the day of his son Seo-mo’s training camp graduation ceremony when he was the party leader. Minister Chu said that it was “the name of a meeting with members of the legislators,” but that day, Minister Chu was in the army in Paju, Gyeonggi province. In response, the opposition party raised suspicions, “Isn’t that false?” Previously, from 2014 to 2015, Minister Chu spent 2.5 million won on political funds at a dumpling restaurant in Yongsan, Seoul, run by his first daughter.
According to the expenditure of political funds released by Congressman Soo-jin Cho’s office on the 18th, Minister Chu paid the political funds three times on January 3, 2017 in Yeonmu-eup, Nonsan-gun, Chungnam. I paid 50,000 won at a gas station and 140,000 won (40,000 won, 100,000 won) at a steakhouse twice. Minister Chu wrote down the name of the spending on “gasoline expenses” and “congressional meetings.”
That day was the day of Minister Chu’s son’s training ground completion ceremony. Seo joined the Nonsan Training Center on November 28, 2016 and reportedly completed the training on January 3, 2017.
However, Minister Chu was in Paju, not Nonsan that day. At 12 p.m., the party leader, Minister Chu, ate together at the soldiers’ restaurant to cheer on the soldiers of the Cheonho Battalion.
In his greeting, he also spoke of his son’s training ground. He said, “My son entered the Nonsan Training Center to become a new soldier, and after five weeks of training, today is the graduation ceremony.” “I came to see you today instead of going to see my son. Maybe my son will understand it with tears ”. It means that Minister Chu himself admitted that he did not attend the graduation ceremony. It is interpreted to mean that someone else instead of Chu went to Seo’s training ground and spent political money. At the time, regulations stated that ‘only parents, such as grandparents and parents, may visit’ at the graduation ceremony.
Representative Cho said, “If Minister Chu is not a ‘Congress meeting’, but makes a false report, he will be imprisoned for no more than three years or no more than 6 million won in the case of false presentation of the income and expenditure of political funds. It could be fined. “
